Because Alli is sick. Again. Ben has a cold, but Alli seems worse. She has a fever and is crying a LOT and isn't nursing well at all. What a lame birthday present :-(

At least it happened after the party.

Please help. Every single day I tell my kids "no growing" but they won't listen and I am at my wits end. Alli's birthday party is tomorrow and she's going to get chocolate cake and then I'm just done for. Please make it stop. If I don't close my eyes, tomorrow will never come, right? Yes? I can has baby forever ( Read more... )

i have a burn on my right wrist and a filling that has been chipped for almost 18 months now has broken AGAIN and has a jagged edge that really hurts ( Read more... )

i've been holding in a bunch of stuff. i miss lj ( Read more... )

Allison Rain was born at 10:26 a.m. on Tuesday, March 24. She weighed 8 pounds and 10 ounces and was 20 ½ inches long. I was 39 weeks exactly, and it was also exactly 2 weeks after the first time I tried to have her.

( Allisons birth story )

One homebirth coming right up!!!!!!!!!!! Sometime between today and April 15, our daughter will be arriving at home into happy loving arms ( Read more... )

Ben started asking for his birthday last April (interestingly, it was his weaning day that we first had the conversation) and I told him that it was spring. Then comes summer, then fall THEN his birthday which was in the winter ( Read more... )

Those of you who were around last year probably remember that we went to see my great-grandmother in California for her 100th birthday. We took a five-generation photo and I wrote about the whole thing for the paper, which was where I worked at the time. The whole thing was really fun (well, the grandma part was, anyway) and left us with beautiful ( Read more... )

Today is Stephen's 27th birthday, which, for some reason, seems a lot closer to 30 than 26 did. He almost couldn't work today because his license expires today and even though he sent his money in FOREVER ago (and it's been cashed!) they never sent his license back to him. Lots of crazy emergency phone calls later, he learned that they are changing ( Read more... )

First, our two year ribbon! We made it. I have given him his birthright.


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